Improved lubricant for wool



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

BENJN. A. EARL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVED LUBRICANT FOR WOOL.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 16,551, dated February28, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, B. A. EARL, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, haveinvented an Improved Lubricant; and I do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention consists of the use for lubricating purposes of milkcombined with borax. I take about one gallon of milk and dissolve in thesame about three and a half ounces of borax.

I have found after many careful practical tests that this compositionforms an excellent and economical substitute for lubricants heretoforeused in the preparation of wool and other fibrous material to bemanufactured into textile fabrics, the composition being used preciselyin the same manner as oils have been heretofore applied for the samepurpose.

The composition may also be used wherever oil has been heretoforeemployed for lubrication.

If deemed desirable, lard-oil or other oils may be mixed with thecomposition before its application to the Wool or other fibrousmaterial; or the composition may be appliedwith advantage after the woolhas been treated in the usual manner with the oils heretofore employedfor the same purpose.

Without confining myself to any precise proportions of the materialsnsed, I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent-The use of a combination of milk and borax as a lubricant.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification-in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

B. A. EARL.

Witnesses:

CHARLES E. FOSTER, JOHN WHITE.

